TV shows you want to exist, but don't

A Queen And Country series. TheAmericans aside, the current crop of television spies, female or not, are pretty abysmal.

Also, Life Season 3, because goddamn that was a good show.

Lastly, a The Sandbaggers style spy drama set in the universe of The Laundry Series books.

Better yet, you can combine the first and the third, haha.

edited 15th Mar '13 2:19:20 PM by Maka4

1. An animorphs series that didn't suck. Nick's attempt was horrendous and I'd like to see it done well. Maybe on Syfy.

I struggle with this since a lot of ideas I have work better in book, comic or cartoon form but...

2. A show that plays up the monstrous nature of vampires more than the tragedy or the romance of it. The vampires would be relatively normal looking until they vamp out when the look absolutely ghastly. Some even staying that way permanently if they're too weak to use their glamour. The misanthropic villain protagonist takes his transformation into a vampire as a chance to punish the cruelty he sees in humans and in the process turns the world into a dystopian nightmare where he becomes worse than any of the horrible things he saw during his life and where the audience is rooting to see him get taken down. The series finale would reveal that 90% of what he does after a certain point was a long Xanatos Roulette to get humans to go along a better path.

3. A show where an alien and his people have been monitoring humans for centuries and living among them at periods waiting for humans to get light speed travel so they can introduce themselves and get earth to join the intergalactic community since this alien's sect believes humans are the last piece in a prophecy to save the galaxy because Humans are special. But the protagonist is tired of waiting for humans to get their act together and decides to violate his people's prime directive and actually interfere to try to drag earthlings into the galactic spotlight kicking and screaming. This of course has disastrous consequences.

Historical drama called "The Iron Chancellor" about Otto Von Bismarck and his life of politics across the unification of germany. With Ian Mcshane as Otto Von Bismarck.

TV shows based on the work of Nnedi Okorafor. She writes Science Fantasy / Urban Fantasy books based on African mythology. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that Hollywood would either whitewash it or completely butcher it.

thats why Anansi Boys is taking so long to adapt. The first words out of most producers mouths is "can we make these people white"

A Star Trek series set in the early 24th century exploring the initial Federation peace with Klingons, the lead up the Bajoran Occupation by Cardassia, and the gradual change from Kirk style captains to Picard-esque leading officers in Starfleet.

An adaptation of Shinji and Warhammer 40k. Just because of the awesomeness.

A decent new Star Trek series would be nice, but Enterprise seems to have done killed that prospect for a long while, if not forever.

edited 16th Mar '13 9:03:53 PM by TamH70

To be honest I'd really like to see post Dominion War Alpha Quadrant (part of why I think Voyager should have gotten home half way through season 7 and use the rest as a period readjustment for the crew/epilogue for that era of Star Trek).

A live-action deconstruction of Super Robot Genre without actual robots.

((Maybe that does exist, but I haven't seen it.))

I agree with whoever suggested a one-hour animated drama series. It seems to me that there's so much awesome stuff you could do with animated series beyond the genres they tend to be limited to (with some exceptions of course)- I'd love to see a few more serious traditionally animated shows, beyond the ones aimed at a younger audience and comedy shows.

I also second the religious sitcom.

Also, I think a full-blown TV series adaptation of Final Fantasy VI or VII might be cool... I actually have several ideas for a somewhat expanded adaptation of VI. Again, these would likely be animated, mainly because they could easily look quite silly in live-action.

The Cape, seasons 2-4.